Published: October 29, 1862

The grand Democratic City and County Ratification meeting announced with so much flourish came off last evening in City Hall Park. The weather was clear, cool and beautiful, the bright sunshine of the day having completely dried the soil and left a cloudless sky. Between 6 and 7 P.M., the usual crowd of lookers-on and idle people began to assemble around the three platforms which had been created -- one in front, and one on either wing of the Municipal edifice. The Committee of Arrangements assembled at Tammany Hall, the facade of which was decorated with a brilliant transparency of huge dimensions bearing the names of the Democratic State and County nominees. In the Park, calcium lights, emblematic banners, rockets and Roman candles amused the throng until 7 o'clock -- the appointed hour for the commencement of the evening exercises.

About that time, the concourse on the ground was both large and noisy, and when Capt. ISAIAH RYNDERS, Chairman of the Committee, appeared of the main platform, grent was the tumult of voices.

The Captain, so soon as he could make himself heard, after sundry admonitions to the small boys to "dry up," called to order, and nominated for Chairman Ex-Mayor.

FELLOW-CITIZENS: I thank you for the honor of being called upon to preside over this meeting. Some years since I retired from the political arena, but at your and my country's call, I, as every American citizen is bound to do, [???] it to take my part in the contest now waging to preserve intact the institutions bequeathed to us by the fathers of the Republic, and congratulate you upon the great union of the Democracy of this City and State to achieve that end, for I believe that through their united efforts and the success of their candidates at the coming ejection, peace and prosperity will be restored and the dignity of the nation maintained.

Fellow-citizens, I will not detain you any longer, but proceed to organize the meeting. [Cheers.]

Mr. CHARLES CORNELL then proceeded to announce a long list of Vice-Presidents and Secretaries, and Mr. CLANCY read a series of resolutions sustaining the President and the war, but denouncing the recent emancipation and martial law proclamations, and indorsing the Democratic County nominees.

The above having been received with acclamation, the Chairman introduced.

HON. S.S. COX, OF OHIO

who was greeted with loud cheers for himself andfor VALLANDIGHAM.

He said he had just come from Ohio -- a state which had spoken at the last election. It was becoming fashionable to issue proclamations. Gen. [???] Gen. HUNTER, and the Chief Magistrate had each issued a proclamation; but, on the 14th of October, the people of the Northwest had proclaimed that the President of the United States should be emancipated from the rule of Abolitionism; and although that proclamation, like others, might not go immediately into effect, vet it had been demonstrated in Ohio, in Pennsylvania, in Indiana, and in Iowa, that the people of the country still hold the sceptre of authority and wear the crown of sovereignty. [Applause,] The results of the elections that had recently been held, meant that the Constitution should be the supreme law of the land; that personal liberty, free speech and a free Press, as guaranteed by that Constitution, should remain inviolable, and that the war should not be perverted into a mere Anti-Slavery party war, for no purpose of good to either the black man or the white. [Applause.] From what he had learned in New-Jersey and here, he felt confident that New-York would respond to the great West by the election of SEYMOUR as Governor. [Three cheers for SEYMOUR.] It was difficult for him to speak to se large a meeting, because baring had a Republican majority of 3,200 to carry on his back, he had been compelled to work very hard in the Ohio campaign; but he had the satisfaction of being able to announce to his fellow Democrats before him, that the regeneration of the American Congress had begun, by the election from Ohio of himself and thirteen other Democratic Congressmen, making fourteen out of the nineteen sent from that State. It was necessary not only that [???] should be elected Governor, but also that the present [???] Congress should be cleaned out; and the Democrats of New-York had it to their power to do a part of the cleansing. [Cheers, ad cries of "We will! we will!"] There was no hope under Heaven for the salvation of the country except by the accession to power of the conservative Democracy -- ["Good for Ohio"] -- and by adherence to the Constitution. The articles of Confederation which existed before the formation of the Constitution were nothing but a rope of sand; and when the Constitution was abandoned the Union was gone. That Constitution was made, not by fools or fanatics, but by the wise men of the Revolutionary day -the demi gods of that era; it was made for peace and for war, and for every emergency of the Republic in all future times. Lord BROUGHAM had called it the greatest refinement in civil polity that the world had ever seen. [Applause.] And it should be remembered that only by remaining faithful to it could the country be saved. The men who would break that Constitution down in order to get at Slavery, were not by any means loyal or patriotic men.

[A VOICE -- "They are black-hearted traitors,"]

An Abolitionist, If he were honest, could not be other than a [???], Regarding union with slaveholders as a crime, he must necessarily hate the Constitution under which that Union existed.